In my experience noise on hot-plugging the serial adapter is a complete nonissue. I'm sure it matters for you, sometimes. But for this kind of embedded work, I'd say it's important far, far less than 1% of the time.
In my experience with... it's maybe 20? ... embedded boards, junk during boot breaks the boot flow for about half of them. And attaching quickly after target powerup is very often the crux of the exercise, to get to the bootloader fast enough before it moves on, but also you don't have the shifters (or Vref pin) in place to be able to attach beforehand...
In my experience with... it's maybe 20? ... embedded boards, junk during boot breaks the boot flow for about half of them. And attaching quickly after target powerup is very often the crux of the exercise, to get to the bootloader fast enough before it moves on, but also you don't have the shifters (or Vref pin) in place to be able to attach beforehand...